When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Be hopeful.

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

What would Integrity have me do?

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

I think the Statue of David is pretty sexy. I'd do him.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

God made the integers, man made the rest.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

I like being organized and super particular.

You're whatever you think you are. People like to compartmentalize other people. I don't worry about what other people think. I'm not living for them.